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I wrote a golang BASIC interpreter a few years ago, which was inspired by my ZX Spectrum: https://github.com/skx/gobasic And later still I wrote an adventure game in Z80: https://github.com/skx/lighthouse-of-doom The Spectrum was how I got…

comment by stevekemp · 2026-05-12 · in Boriel BASIC

…"that was too high", "that was too low", and we talked about choosing the number in the middle: https://github.com/skx/gobasic/blob/master/examples/55-game.... Later still things got more interesting when he could both type but also read,…

comment by stevekemp · 2025-07-03 · in Ask HN: How have you shared computers with your young child (~3 to 5)

…modern games don't really appeal to me as much as Dizzy did, or the old-school fighting games. https://github.com/skx/gobasic https://github.com/skx/lighthouse-of-doom/

comment by stevekemp · 2024-12-21 · in Ascending Mount FujiNet

…few years back, and somehow the child really fell in love with the classic "guess the number" game: https://github.com/skx/gobasic/blob/master/examples/55-game.... I taught him how to divide the range in half to cut down on the number of…

comment by stevekemp · 2024-05-19 · in Show HN: A Golang CP/M emulator

…interpreters out there, my own isn't so complex or thorough, but I definitely had fun writing it: https://github.com/skx/gobasic/ My own vision was to reproduce something akin to the ZX Spectrum, rather than the more advanced Microsoft…

comment by stevekemp · 2023-05-11 · in TwinBASIC is a modern BASIC compiler

…I deliberately concentrated on the line-numbers and facilities of the ZX Spectrum I remembered: https://github.com/skx/gobasic Being standalone it doesn't have the graphic support or the interactivity, but it was still a fun project to…

comment by stevekemp · 2022-06-08 · in EndBASIC

…I think "real" BASIC interpreters would fall-through to the 10-line. I know my own toy BASIC does: https://github.com/skx/gobasic Edit : Have reported issue, so it doesn't get lost in this thread.

comment by stevekemp · 2021-07-04 · in Show HN: Atto – BASIC computer that runs in the browser

I wrote a trivial BASIC interpreter too, in golang: https://github.com/skx/gobasic

comment by stevekemp · 2021-02-28 · in Commodore Basic as a Scripting Language for Unix and Windows – Now Open Source

I wrote a simple BASIC too, for nothing more than a sense of nostalgia: https://github.com/skx/gobasic

comment by stevekemp · 2021-01-24 · in Why am I wasting time on EndBASIC?

…a PNG of the output. I called that "visual basic" even though it is nowhere near the same thing! https://github.com/skx/gobasic I had way more fun than I expected tinkering with it though, made me very nostalgic for the ZX Spectrum which…

comment by stevekemp · 2020-11-29 · in 30 years later, QBasic is still the best

…fun to tinker with, and at the end of the day it doesn't matter if others don't care/like it too https://github.com/skx/gobasic

comment by stevekemp · 2020-08-25 · in Show HN: PuffinBASIC – A cross-platform modern BASIC interpreter written in Java

…a simple BASIC interpreter for golang, and did something a little more high-level, but not by much: https://github.com/skx/gobasic

comment by stevekemp · 2020-07-28 · in Show HN: An Actually-Tiny Basic for Arduino

…is to blame I can't say. My own BASIC is very simple, but easy to embed/extend: https://github.com/skx/gobasic I sometimes consider extending it with WHILE/WEND, named functions, and similar. But then I remember the constraints are part o

comment by stevekemp · 2020-07-04 · in QuickBasic64: Basic for the Modern Era

I wrote a simple BASIC interpreter inspired by the Sinclair, over here https://github.com/skx/gobasic

comment by stevekemp · 2020-06-07 · in Let's make a Teeny Tiny compiler

…little languages, so you'll probably want to have fun and try making more! I went with BASIC: https://github.com/skx/gobasic But then you start thinking about assembly language: https://github.com/skx/math-compiler

comment by stevekemp · 2020-05-06 · in Show HN: I wrote a VM and Compiler for a small language in Go

I hacked up a simple BASIC interpreter in golang a while back, tons of fun. https://github.com/skx/gobasic I also added a simple HTTP-server, with a <textarea> inside it for writing your program. I figured that server should be called…

comment by stevekemp · 2020-05-03 · in Pg-Basic

…had a lot of fun recently writing a simple BASIC interpreter, largely inspired by Sinclair's basic: https://github.com/skx/gobasic I'm pretty pleased with the ability to write images, via a browser-editor, even if it is static and not…

comment by stevekemp · 2020-04-11 · in Show HN: A modern BASIC-like teaching and learning programming language

…AMD64 assembly language https://github.com/skx/math-compiler/ , wrote a simple BASIC intepreter https://github.com/skx/gobasic , and put together a couple of DSL-projects which followed a similar approach. All in all I'd recommend reading…

comment by stevekemp · 2019-11-25 · in Writing An Interpreter In Go (2016)

…<textarea> and have the output rendered by their browser as an image. I called it "visual basic" ;) https://github.com/skx/gobasic/#80-print-visual-basic Just a small example really of embedding, I suspect to make it really useful for…

comment by stevekemp · 2019-07-08 · in Show HN: Old School Graphics Algorithms

…choice about implementation I picked the choice that was closest to the Sinclair-BASIC I remembered: http://github.com/skx/gobasic/

comment by stevekemp · 2019-02-25 · in Why 80s BASIC still matters

…write a program that would draw graphs/images: * https://blog.steve.fi/a_visual_basic_server.html * https://github.com/skx/gobasic/ Pretty fun learning experience, but even with the browser-based input I'm not sure it's hands-on enough.…

comment by stevekemp · 2019-01-04 · in A Review of Tiny Languages (2016)

I just committed a version that works in my golang BASIC interpreter: https://github.com/skx/gobasic/blob/master/examples/15-fizz-... Perhaps not the cleanest, since I support neither `CASE` nor `ELSE IF`. But it seems to be correct.

comment by stevekemp · 2018-11-02 · in Fifty Fizzbuzzes

…are hard: 10 LET a = 3+4*5 20 PRINT a, "\n" Produces the expected outcome: -> 23 Bug filed: https://github.com/skx/gobasic/issues/41

comment by stevekemp · 2018-10-27 · in Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter in Go